The life of Walter Scott : a critical biography

Immediate and immensely readable, this masterful account is at the same time a work of major biographical scholarship. John Sutherland penetrates into the darker areas of Scott's life in a sceptical (yet sympathetic) spirit, bringing the massive oeuvre and the chronicle of the life into manageable proportions, one illumining the other. Scott - the 'Great Unknown' - has always presented challenges to the biographer. Layers of myth continue to protect him from posterity. There is also the sheer size of Scott's achievements as poet, novelist, man of letters, and self-made Laird of Abbotsford. Sutherland justifies Scott as a writer to be read and understand today as much as in his heyday in the nineteenth century.続きを読む

Scott among the Scotts (1771-1783) --
Student and apprentice (1783-1790) --
Getting forward (1790-1797) --
The minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1798-1802) --
Ashestiel and The Lay of the Last minstrel (1802-1805) --
The Scott Brothers and Marmion (1806-1809) --
The complete author (1809-1811) --
Abbotsford and Waverley (1811-1814) --
Guy mannering to the antiquary (1814-1816) --
T̀ales of my Landlord' to The Heart of Midlothian (1816-1818) --
The Bride of Lammermoor to the Abbot (1818-1820) --
The Tory Grandee (1820-1822) --
The royal visit and Redgauntlet (1822-1823). The crash (1824-1826) --
Working for the creditors (1826-1827) --
The m̀agnum opus' (1828-1829) --
The last years (1830-1832).

概要：

This biography of Scott analyzes him in his various guises. Scott has always presented challenges to the biographer because of the layers of myth created by the faithful son-in-law Lockhart, and the sheer size of Scott's achievements as poet, novelist and self-made Laird of Abbotsford.続きを読む